Here’s your cheat code for sweet potato success: 205°F to 212°F. Bake at 400°F. Poke holes. Wait. Don’t guess. If you follow this, you’ll have a sweet potato so good you’ll weep tears of butter-flavored joy. And if you fail? Well, at least you have a funny story to tell at your next café hangout. Just don’t tell my mother-in-law.
Now go forth and roast, my friends.